Which Country Produces the Most Indigenous Cattle Meat?

Based on a comparison of 171 countries in 2014, USA ranked the highest in indigenous cattle meat production with 11,057 kt followed by Brazil and China. On the other end of the scale was Macao with < 0.001 kt, Montenegro with 0.001 kt and Hong Kong with 0.001 kt.

Total indigenous cattle meat production reached 66,214 kt in 2014 in the World according to Faostat. This is 4.83 % more than in the previous year and 12.4 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total indigenous cattle meat production reached an all time high of 66,214 kt in 2014 and an all time low of 27,696 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 1.66 % since 1961.

The top ranked country, USA, accounted for 16.7 % of indigenous cattle meat production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 40.6 % share while the ten largest countries some 62.6 % in 2014.

Data for more countries are available at Cattle Meat Production (Indigenous) indicator page.